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Publication details [#14323]
Zavala, Virginia. 2001. Borrowing evidential functions from Quechua: The role of pues as a discourse marker in Andean Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (7) : 999–1023. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper reports on the non-standard function of the particle PUES in Andean Spanish.
Having borrowed evidential functions of Quechua -MI, PUES is a discourse marker which presents tonic stress and which functions as a confirmation and clarification device in evoked or inferred utterances.